Comments on: Technical Document PDFs on the Kindle DX

By: exapted

exapted — Sat, 15 May 2010 08:28:40 +0000

Questions for all Kindle DX users:
(1) Is it possible to set bookmarks throughout a PDF document, and retain all of them the next time you open that PDF? It would solve the navigation problem. The only other good option would be to append a modified 1-page table of contents to the PDF, with the actual pdf document page numbers (often the PDF document page numbers don’t match the book page numbers).
(2) I have some PDFs that are scanned, but because of OCR the text can be highlighted, copied to clipboard, etc. I’m wondering, will I be able to keyword search those PDFs? I have heard that such search is “disabled” for “scanned image” PDFs. But what about PDFs that are scanned images and include the actual characters too?
(3) Does the dictionary work inside a PDF?
(4) How fast is it to quickly page through a PDF?

And by the way, for people who are worried about margins: I’m trying to figure out the most convenient way to crop PDF files before putting them onto an ereader. I’ll try out http://pdfcrop.sourceforge.net/ and some others and report my experience. Maybe if it works out I can create a script to automate some parts of the process. Anyway, if you are at all technically proficient, I don’t think auto-cropping should be a big huge factor in which ebook you purchase, since there are many other factors to consider, not many choices, and cropping is an issue you can resolve by simply pre-processing all of your PDFs.

By: Will

Will — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:12:41 +0000

Google k2pdfopt for a PDF optimizer that allows technical articles to be read on a Kindle 2.

By: Kindle DX

Kindle DX — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 10:53:42 +0000

I just wanted to add my review to confirm that PDF support works great. One thing I love about the PDF on the Kindle DX is that it shows page numbers rather than the units of measure the regular ebooks use that I still don’t understand.

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By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:04:53 +0000

Hey Matt, did you ever try Nirmal’s document? Pics?

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:37:38 +0000

Hi,

Have you tried loading a PDF that came as an ILL, or off JSTOR?

Elizabeth

By: Roscoe

Roscoe — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:36:25 +0000

You just sold a DX for amazon; you should get a kick back or something. This is what I’ve been waiting for, hope you still love it.

By: Jim H

Jim H — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:41:30 +0000

I should say the SPEECH reader does not work on PDFs.

By: Jim H

Jim H — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 23:40:12 +0000

No the reader does not work with PDFs and I don’t think there is anyway to zoom in on a PDF, if the fant is to small for the screen.

By: Pat

Pat — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:19:58 +0000

kindle put really the level very high. A PDF reader, that apparently can handle huge pdf files!! this is THE tool that EVERY scientists want!

How come noe one has done it before?

Anyway, Im from France, and here in Europe we have no kindle at all. What amazon is waiting for? waiting for that ice melts in summer, or that chicken have teeth?

They could sell dozens of millions of kindle here in europe as there are many public transports and scientist and business men would read in the public transports.. what the hell are they waiting for? )

Pat,a french guy.